coverage, the very existence of Mumia Abu-Jamal was virtually buried by the mass media-just as Mumia himself has been virtually entombed on Death Row since 1982. Until recently in this year of super-saturation O.J. Such a stay, of course, should have been automatic-but in fact it was a tremendous victory won by immense international pressure and outrage over the case. Ten days prior to his scheduled dath by lethal injection, Mumia received a stay pending exhaustion of all his appeals. At the beginning of June, governor Thomas Ridge signed the death warrant for this African-American journalist and revolutionary activist, setting the date of execution for August 17. THE LIFE OF Mumia Abu-Jamal hung in the balance as this issue of Against the Current is in preparation (mid-July 1995). Save Mumia Abu-Jamal | Solidarity Save Mumia Abu-Jamal - The Editors
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